Safety locking-bolt.



H. W. HARRIS. SAFETY LOOKING BOLT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY Patented Apr. 13, 1909.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. HARRIS, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety Locking-Bolts, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to a safety locking bolt, particularly adapted for use on doors,

windows and gates, and the object of my in-' hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a safety locking bolt of my improved construction, the same being a plied for use; Fig. 2 is a vertical section ta 'en 011 the line 22 of Fig. '1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken approximately on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an elevation of a modified form of the locking bolt, and which form is adapted to be countersunk in the structure to which it is applied; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings: 1 designates a portion of a door, window or gate to which the lock is applied, and 2 the door post or casement, and

ixed to the door or window 1 is a plate 8,

with the central portion of which is formed integral a horizontally disposed tubular housing 4, in which is arranged to slide a cy- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 13, 1908.

Patented April 13, 1909.

Serial N 0. 443,344..

lindrical locking bolt 5, and seated in the central ortion of said locking bolt is a loop or stap e 6, which projects through a loop 7 formed in the front of the housing 4.

Fixed to the face of the plate 3 above the left-hand end of the slot 7 is a narrow plate 8, and hinged thereto is a hasp 9, which is of such shape as that it will snugly fit over the housing 4, and formed in the lower portion of this has 9 is an aperture 10, through which the stap e 6 projects when the hasp is swung downward onto the housing 4.

11 designates a plate fixed to the door post or casing 2, directly op )osite the plate 3, and formed integral Vv'itl this plate 11 is a keeper 12, which is adapted to receive the end of the lockin bolt 5 when the same is moved beyond t e left-hand end of the plate 3.

The bolt 5 is shifted from one position to another by means of the loop or staple 6, which moves from one end of the slot 7 to the other, and when said bolt is moved into a locked position with its left-hand end in the keeper 12, the loop or staple 6 occupies the lefthand end of the slot 7, and the hasp 9 is now swung downward so that the loop or staple 6 projects through the opening 10 and the shackle of a padlock is now engaged through the projecting loop or staple, as shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2 and when said padlock is locked the hasp and locking bolt are likewise locked.

' In the modified form of the device seen in Figs. 4 and 5, the bolt housing 4* is fixed on the rear side of the plate B and said bolt housing 4* occupies a recess formed in the art 1", and thus said bolt housing and the oolt operating therein are counter-sunk, and where this construction is provided, the end of the locking bolt enters a recess formed in the part 2.

A safety locking bolt of my improved con struction is simple, inexpensive, can be advantageously used where a simple, positive lock is desired, and by means of the hasp the locking bolt can be maintained in a latched position without the use of the padlock, or can be positively locked with said adlock.

I c aim:

1. A device of the class described, comprising a housing, a bolt arranged to slide therein, a loop carried by the locking bolt, and a hasp hinged to the housing and adapted to engage the loop.

2. A device of the class described, .com prising a housing, a hasp hinged thereto, a

bolt arranged to slide in the housing, and means fixed to said bolt and adapted to 1 receive the hasp when the bolt is shifted l into a locked'position.

' In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. HARRIS.

1 \Vitnesses:

M. P. SMITH, E. L. WALLACE. 

